Copyright (C) 1997-2003 - Samba-Team The Samba package you have just unpacked contains the following: Directory Notes: ========= ====== docs (Samba Documentation): ---- ---------------------- All the Samba documentation for the 3.0 release have been converted to docbook format. Because of this the man pages are now available in both traditional man page format (in the docs/manpages directory) and in HTML format (in the docs/htmldocs directory). The Samba HOWTO Collection has undergone some rather large changes and covers all parts of configuration now. It is available as PDF (docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf) or in HTML format (in the docs/htmldocs directory). Those with the docbook utilities installed can generate PostScript and text versions of the HOWTO as well. The Samba FAQ is still a work in progress, but can be found in HTML format in docs/htmldocs. examples (Example configuration files): -------- ------------------------------ Please pay close attention to the reference smb.conf file smb.conf.default that has now been included as the master guide. Do read the smb.conf manual page in considering what settings are appropriate for your site. packaging (Only for those wishing to build binary distributions): --------- ------------------------------------------------------- Currently support is included for the following Linux Distributions : RedHat and SuSE. In addition, packaging support is available for SGI and Solaris systems. We hope that other Unix OS vendors will contribute their binary distribution packaging control files - and we hope to make their binary packages available on the master ftp site under: ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/Binary_Packages/"OS_Vendor" source (The official Samba source files - expect more of these!): ------ ---------------------------------------------------------- To build your own binary files you will need a suitable ansi C compiler. Samba uses the GNU autoconf system. In order to build a default Samba for your platform cd into the source3/ directory and then type : ./configure followed by : make To install the binaries built by the above type : make install then set up your configuration files. NOTE: OS Vendors who provide Samba binary packages will generally integrate all Samba files into their preferred directory locations. These may differ from the default location ALWAYS used by the Samba sources. Please be careful when upgrading a vendor provided binary distribution from files you have built yourself.